{"id":7859,"date":"2025-03-20T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2025-03-20T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T12:47:38","slug":"liberty-takes-on-oregon-in-opening-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7859","title":{"rendered":"Liberty takes on Oregon in opening round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 25 Oregon plays in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament against Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks are 13-9 against Big Ten opponents and 11-0 in non-conference play. Oregon has a 5-1 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames are 16-5 against CUSA opponents. Liberty has a 4-3 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon scores 76.2 points, 13.3 more per game than the 62.9 Liberty allows. Liberty averages 5.7 more points per game (76.6) than Oregon allows to opponents (70.9).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CXeXTTS3sk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winchesterstar.com\/associated_press\/regional_sports\/oregon-takes-on-liberty-in-opening-round-of-ncaa-tournament\/article_a135b27b-2cdf-5c67-b1cc-9a25e8210bc9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Winchester Star reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 25 Oregon plays in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament against Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>The Ducks are 13-9 against Big Ten opponents and 11-0 in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7859\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty takes on Oregon in opening round of NCAA Tournament<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[610],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-takes-on-oregon-in-opening-round-of-ncaa-tournament","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-22L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}